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Special Comment Reference

CA VM:Director recognizes several special comments that are not comments in the usual sense. While the usual comments are physical lines with notes or instructions for human use that are not processed by CA VM:Director or by CMS, these special comments are processed by CA VM:Director.

Some of these special comments are created by CA VM:Director, either automatically because of system conditions or in response to administrative or management functions you used. Others you must add to the appropriate user source directory, directory profile, or skeleton file.

CA VM:Director sets the values for many of these special comments. Some of the values it sets are in response to user actions. Other values it sets are in response to commands that you, another system administrator, or a directory manager issues.

Note: Do not edit a special comment directly.

Summary of CA VM:Director Special Comments

Comment types, where they are allowed, and how they are added and maintained are listed in the following table. Their functions are described in the following sections.

Special Comment	Allowed In				Added to File By	Value Set By

	MANAGERS File	Skeleton Files	Directory Profiles	Directory Entries
*AC= account comment		Y	Y	Y	System administrator	System administrator
*ED= edit history comment	Y	Y	Y	Y	System administrator VMXGNR utility	CA VM:Director (only when you use CA VM:Director commands to modify the directory entry)
*ENROLL enroll comment		Y			System administrator	System administrator
*EX= expire comment				Y	CA VM:Director (when someone expires a user ID with the EXPIRE command)	CA VM:Director (when someone expires a user ID with the EXPIRE command)
*FP= file pool comment				Y	CA VM:Director	CA VM:Director (based on the file pools in which the user ID is enrolled)
*PW= password history comment		Y		Y	System administrator VMXGNR utility	CA VM:Director
*PWnn= Traditional password values				Y	CA VM:Director	CA VM:Director
*SP= sample profile comment		Y		Y	System administrator	System administrator (CA VM:Director removes this comment from a directory entry when that user ID’s 191 minidisk is created or when that user ID is enrolled in SFS and the IPL statement is updated with the file pool name)